How to Setup Custom Robots Header Tags on Blogger

Every publisher wants to get good position on Search Engine Result Page (SERP) for their blog/website. In the blogger (Blogspot) we must make a lot of customizing to get a good SEO. Do you know about search robots? They are responsible for recognizing updates on our blog/websites and notifying the search engines about the change. With the help of predefined tags, you can give information to the crawlers to increase and decrease the search visibility. On this post, we share about How to setup custom robots header tags for blogger.
I advise you to follow this guide and enabling the custom robots header tags for best search engine visibility, especially for a new blog/site.

Before jump to the steps of setting up custom robots header tags on Blogger, you must know anything about that.

1. all – If you set this tag, crawlers are not bound by any restrictions. Robots can freely crawl, index and display your content. 
2. noindex – Not all the blogs are share to the public. Also if you don’t share your personal blog link with anyone, the possibilities are people will come to it from search results. In such a situation, you can use noindex tag as it blocks search engines from indexing the pages.
3. nofollow – Nofollow and dofollow tags use for outbound links. Dofollow is the default robot tag for all your outbound links. That indicates the search engines can steal in the pages you linked to. If you don’t want search bots to scan within your links, the addition of a nofollow tag will best setting to you.
4. none – none combines the features of both noindex and nofollow tags. The crawlers will neither index your pages nor browse through the links.
5. noarchive – You might have seen a cached label with most of the website links on Search Engine Result Pages. It tells that Google has achieved a copy of your site into their server to publicize in case the server of your blog is down. The noarchive tag turns off cached version in search pages.
6. nosnippet – The text snippets in search results help people find information on the webpage. If you want to put your content exclusive, you can turn this header tag on.
7. noodp – Open Directory Project or Dmoz is a website directory. Sometimes Google uses the information from there. You can turn it off with this tag if you want to.
8. notranslate – Do you want to disable translation on your site? Then use notranslate for the correct setting.
9. noimageindex – If you permit Google to index your images/photos, somebody may take it and use on their own blogs. To stop that, you can hold the images deindexed by applying noimageindex tag. 
10. Unavailable_after – In Blogspot, you will see a field right to this tag. So, the webpage will be deindexed after this time. 

How to Setup Custom Robots Header Tags on Blogger?

As you know, we are discussing about how to setting up robots tags on blogger. Follow the guide given below:

• Step 1: Visit blogger.com and sign in to your account.
• Step 2: Then go to Settings > Search preference. There you can see a setting called Custom robots header tags under Crawlers and Indexing. Click the Edit link to the right of it.
  
  
• Step 3: At this step, you will see two radio buttons. Clearly, choose Yes.
  
  
• Step 4: Now, you will get a set of checkboxes. But don’t get scared! It may feel like a complex one, but it’s not. You can set them on your own by viewing the Custom Robots Header Tags explanation before once again. Or, just follow the same settings below (refer to the image given below) and hit Save settings.
  
  
  Note: We can set this up for the homepage, archive pages, and post pages as well.
  
• Done, the last step is done, you just successfully set up the Custom Robots Header Tags for Blogger.

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Custom robots header tags are important! As Google gives a custom setup to use them, I think that you need to use it as it well.
Never tick noindex checkbox unless you know what are you do because doing the same will pull your website off from search engine result pages (SERPs).
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